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On show
Strahan Artspace
O ur Artspace at Strahan Village is a joint community initiative
between R ACT Destinations and West Coast Regional Arts.
The venue hosts displays of arts and crafts including photography,
painting, drawing, cabinetmaking, leather work and various other
handcrafts with items for sale and display.
As well as a testament to the creativity of
West Coasters, the space is regularly used
as a meeting and learning space.
Guest artists, from poets to storytellers
and musicians also perform there. Our
Artspace is located on the ferr y wharf right
next to Gordon River Cruises and is open
from 2-6 pm daily.
On the bookshelf
Review by Ben Walter, Fullers Bookshop
T elling rooms are the social quarters of
those ancient, handmade caves dotting
the hillsides of rural Spain for the storage
of perishables – including such crucial
produce as wine and cheese – some of
them dating back to Roman times. These
underground rooms have a table, a fireplace
–
they are cosy nooks in which friends
gather to eat and drink and tell hours of
stories. Michael Paterniti’s book The Telling
Room – subtitled A Tale of Passion, Revenge
and the World’s Greatest Cheese – is space
such as this, all on its own.
The Brownsville Blacksmith
by Yvonne Downes
T he author tells the remarkable story
of her great-grandfather William ‘Bill’
Beach, the blacksmith from regional New
South Wales who became the undefeated
champion oarsman of the world, defending
his title against all challengers in a
series of sculling races in Australia and
England through the 1880s. Bill Beach
dominated his sport in the way only a
select few athletes have ever done. As
James Tomkins, ‘Oarsome Foursome’ gold
medallist rower says, ‘What a great stor y –
one of Australia’s first world champions in
a time of no structured sport or organised
sporting bodies. Bill Beach was the model
for all sports people and people in general,
in behaving with true sportsmanship.’
It’s worth noting that Forty South
Publishing has done a fine job with this
hard-back volume – it is satisfyingly
weighty, opens comfortably and is a delight
to hold and read.
The Telling Room
by Michael Paterniti
Paterniti had once been struck by a New
York deli’s commendation of a remarkable,
expensive cheese known as Paramo de
Guzman. Years later, he was inspired to
track down the man who had concocted
this delicacy. And so, in the heart of dry,
sweltering Castile, he meets Ambrosio
Molinos, a man who had obsessively
crafted his cheese until it resembled the
lost recipes of those he had known in his
childhood. But he was also a man who was
finally betrayed by his investors and his
best friend, losing the very cheese that had
spoken to him so clearly of family and the
old ways.
Ambrosio is a vibrant symbol of these
traditional approaches; a slow food artisan
and locavore before such movements
became fashionable. His stories and
examples speak powerfully to Paterniti
of a simpler, communal way of life, with
all of their diversions into village myths,
the resonance of the landscape, ancient
Spanish history and Ambrosio’s own
tremendous personal grievances.
These very diversions mean that at times
the narrative loses a little of its drive,
particularly when Paterniti and his family
move temporarily to Guzman. But in
certain ways this is part of the point; in a
world where the multitude of local stories
can be unappreciated, we are ultimately
left with an appreciation for these slower
ways of life.
And I would really like to have tried that
cheese.
WIN Entry details p43
WIN Entry details p43
50 April / May 2015
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